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Author Morris, Larry E., 1951-

Title The perilous West : seven amazing explorers and the founding of the Oregon Trail / Larry E. Morris.

Publication Info. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2013]
©2013

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  978.01 MOR    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  978 MORRIS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  978.02 M83    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  978 MORRIS    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-229) and index.
Contents Prologue: The Timely Arrival of This Poor Unfortunate Woman -- I Shall Have Two Boats Well Manned and Armed -- A Powerful Company Is Forming -- Dissolved by Mutual Consent -- We All Now Became Blind from the Reflection of the Sun's Rays -- Whiskey Flowed Like Milk and Honey in the Land of Canaan -- About Seventy Able Bodied Men, Nerved to Hardship -- Families, Plantations, and All Vanished -- A Very Sad Recollection -- The Inscrutable Ways of Providence -- Epilogue: Desolation and Horror Stared Me in the Face -- Chronology.
Subject Oregon National Historic Trail -- Discovery and exploration.
Oregon National Historic Trail -- Description and travel.
Explorers -- Oregon National Historic Trail -- Biography.
Explorers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration.
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
West (U.S.) -- History -- To 1848.
ISBN 9781442211124 cloth alkaline paper
1442211121 cloth alkaline paper
9781442211148 (ebk.)
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